I've done the same (50 resumes for two positions, phone interviews with 15-20, follow-up in-person interviews with 4). That's 10X interviews. But 100X? Assuming anyone he hires goes through multiple follow-up…
"Though I averaged two interviews a day, we had only grown the team by three-four engineers each year." Wait a second, he was interviewing 100X more people than he was hiring??? Does that seem a little extreme to…
Let me clarify my point. Our economy is based on the notion that things are worth what people are willing to pay for them. What if some people are willing to pay more than others? Then businesses have to choose: either…
Did you read the article you just linked to? Here's a direct quote "From a social welfare perspective though, first degree [perfect] price discrimination is not necessarily undesirable. That is, the market is entirely…
Regardless, it never ceases to amaze me how controversial pricing discrimination is. Especially since most people have taken Econ 101: pricing discrimination eliminates dead-weight loss, which should be a good thing…
I'd like to second the request that someone test this who is in a place where they can easily do so. Thanks in advance.
And I'm saying, your opinion is stuck in the 1990's. John Carmack was very excited about both the xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. He's just not excited about the next generation because, in comparison to the most recent…
The 1990's were fifteen years ago. Since then Carmack has spent 60 hours per week writing code for every conceivable console, PC, and mobile platform. Most people in his position would have moved into management by this…
Profiling is absurdly counterproductive, but not for the reasons the paper describes. We don't need detailed analysis for this one, simple math will do. Just to be clear, we're talking about heightened security…
Uh-oh, lookout, it's a Highlight killer! Just like how facebook killed foursquare (fb check-ins), quora (fb questions), Craigslist (fb marketplace), and whatever it is they were trying to kill with fb credits, now…
I don't think it's possible to celebrate Turing's life without mentioning how his life ended. Turing was without a doubt a war hero. His work allowed the Allies to crack the Nazi's enigma code, without which the war…
This isn't that complicated. From your original post: > If I go with a friend who understands the context, they can explain to me the history Either your friend's explanation improved your experience at that…
I meant the company that was bought. "face.com" I wasn't saying facebook just bought it for the domain name. I was saying face.com, as a startup, at some point bought that the domain name "face.com" despite having…
Also, I can't believe the top post for this article is by someone who, a little further down one of the threads, basically said "eh, actually I take it all back".
haha, the whole time I was clicking around, a non-zero part of my brain was sitting there thinking, "ok, but where the hell did that daddy thing come from?"
This article is pure speculation...
face.com -- all I can think of when I see this is "how much did they pay for that domain name???" It must have been in the 10's of thousands of dollars. How that can be a good use of startup resources is a complete…
So to go back to your original post: you get a quick summary from your friend, and that's sufficient to "get" art, but I have to spend three months going to an art history class? Give me a break.
In the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, they have a tree ring from what might be the oldest tree ever found. Next to that gigantic slice of wood on the wall is...a giant plaque. The plaque describes…
If the artist intended to express loneliness, but instead gave most people a feeling of "hey look at those happy people on a beach", then that wasn't good art that was ruined by a plaque. It was just bad art.
> Pretty soon people are reading their way through the museum. Yes. Yes that's exactly what I want to do. I want to spend a day at the museum, and read, i.e. learn, why some things are important and great art, and…
Well...then they can get a bigger plaque. Remember I'm responding to the person above who was saying there was a very straight-forward explanation and way to understand art based on X, Y, Z, A & B. If that…
The "dilemma of the palette", I grapple with it constantly. if you never develop a palette for something, you never have to spend the money on "the good stuff". Applies to scotch, wine, beer, cigars, and food, among…
That makes very good sense. The problem is, a lot of us have been to modern art museums, where you'd think that next to every piece there would be an explanation as to the X, Y, Z, A & B that you mentioned. But…
I agree, that is a false dichotomy. Here's an alternative: read a lot of things, including one or two books by the "pickup" people. Glean from their stuff some things that are useful, and toss out the rest. If you're so…
I've done the same (50 resumes for two positions, phone interviews with 15-20, follow-up in-person interviews with 4). That's 10X interviews. But 100X? Assuming anyone he hires goes through multiple follow-up…
"Though I averaged two interviews a day, we had only grown the team by three-four engineers each year." Wait a second, he was interviewing 100X more people than he was hiring??? Does that seem a little extreme to…
Let me clarify my point. Our economy is based on the notion that things are worth what people are willing to pay for them. What if some people are willing to pay more than others? Then businesses have to choose: either…
Did you read the article you just linked to? Here's a direct quote "From a social welfare perspective though, first degree [perfect] price discrimination is not necessarily undesirable. That is, the market is entirely…
Regardless, it never ceases to amaze me how controversial pricing discrimination is. Especially since most people have taken Econ 101: pricing discrimination eliminates dead-weight loss, which should be a good thing…
I'd like to second the request that someone test this who is in a place where they can easily do so. Thanks in advance.
And I'm saying, your opinion is stuck in the 1990's. John Carmack was very excited about both the xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. He's just not excited about the next generation because, in comparison to the most recent…
The 1990's were fifteen years ago. Since then Carmack has spent 60 hours per week writing code for every conceivable console, PC, and mobile platform. Most people in his position would have moved into management by this…
Profiling is absurdly counterproductive, but not for the reasons the paper describes. We don't need detailed analysis for this one, simple math will do. Just to be clear, we're talking about heightened security…
Uh-oh, lookout, it's a Highlight killer! Just like how facebook killed foursquare (fb check-ins), quora (fb questions), Craigslist (fb marketplace), and whatever it is they were trying to kill with fb credits, now…
I don't think it's possible to celebrate Turing's life without mentioning how his life ended. Turing was without a doubt a war hero. His work allowed the Allies to crack the Nazi's enigma code, without which the war…
This isn't that complicated. From your original post: > If I go with a friend who understands the context, they can explain to me the history Either your friend's explanation improved your experience at that…
I meant the company that was bought. "face.com" I wasn't saying facebook just bought it for the domain name. I was saying face.com, as a startup, at some point bought that the domain name "face.com" despite having…
Also, I can't believe the top post for this article is by someone who, a little further down one of the threads, basically said "eh, actually I take it all back".
haha, the whole time I was clicking around, a non-zero part of my brain was sitting there thinking, "ok, but where the hell did that daddy thing come from?"
This article is pure speculation...
face.com -- all I can think of when I see this is "how much did they pay for that domain name???" It must have been in the 10's of thousands of dollars. How that can be a good use of startup resources is a complete…
So to go back to your original post: you get a quick summary from your friend, and that's sufficient to "get" art, but I have to spend three months going to an art history class? Give me a break.
In the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, they have a tree ring from what might be the oldest tree ever found. Next to that gigantic slice of wood on the wall is...a giant plaque. The plaque describes…
If the artist intended to express loneliness, but instead gave most people a feeling of "hey look at those happy people on a beach", then that wasn't good art that was ruined by a plaque. It was just bad art.
> Pretty soon people are reading their way through the museum. Yes. Yes that's exactly what I want to do. I want to spend a day at the museum, and read, i.e. learn, why some things are important and great art, and…
Well...then they can get a bigger plaque. Remember I'm responding to the person above who was saying there was a very straight-forward explanation and way to understand art based on X, Y, Z, A & B. If that…
The "dilemma of the palette", I grapple with it constantly. if you never develop a palette for something, you never have to spend the money on "the good stuff". Applies to scotch, wine, beer, cigars, and food, among…
That makes very good sense. The problem is, a lot of us have been to modern art museums, where you'd think that next to every piece there would be an explanation as to the X, Y, Z, A & B that you mentioned. But…
I agree, that is a false dichotomy. Here's an alternative: read a lot of things, including one or two books by the "pickup" people. Glean from their stuff some things that are useful, and toss out the rest. If you're so…